César Rodríguez Garavito

Taking religion seriously

The results of the plebiscite to approve the Peace Agreement showed us that it is time to take religion seriously and to dispute the right’s political predominance in spiritual matters.

Religion is not a comfortable subject in spaces like this newspaper, whose readers and columnists tend to be more urban, liberal and agnostic or atheists than the national average. Nor is it for presidential candidates who defend those positions and who will have to compete with parties such as the Centro Democrático, which has cultivated hundreds of thousands of faithful voters between Christian sectors and conservative Catholics.